Swain Library News

Swain’s new book list for April 2008 is now available:
Swain Library monthly new book list

Swain’s new book list for March 2008 is now available:

Swain Library monthly new book list

Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)

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Swain’s new book list for February 2008 is now available:

Swain Library monthly new book list

Distillations is a weekly science podcast that brings you extracts from the past, present, and future of chemistry. Join host Robert D. Hicks for a new episode every Friday with interviews, monologues, reviews, features, and more, to gain historical perspective on current scientific issues. Brought to you from the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, their web site includes additional information about each show as well as archived podcasts.

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The Scientist: Blogs
[Entry posted at 22nd February 2008 05:57 PM GMT]

Online video methods journal to work with major publishers
By Alla Katsnelson

Scientific and medical publisher Wiley-Blackwell announced this week (February 20) that they will work with the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first online video methods journal, to add methods videos to the journal Current Protocols.

Rumors of JoVE’s deal with Wiley-Blackwell and other mainstream science publishers have been circulating in the blogosphere since late January. Moshe Pritsker, CEO of JoVE, told The Scientist this week that he had also signed similar deals with Annual Reviews and Springer Protocols.

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Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by our professional curation team for relevance and quality, but are not subjected to peer review. We welcome high-quality contributions from biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences.

Launching in April 2009, Nature Chemistry will provide a unique forum for the publication of high-quality research in all areas of chemistry.

Aims and scope

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Available online via a campus-wide site license, The Chronicle of Higher Education is a top source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign correspondents positioned around the world.

The online version of The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

The Chronicle’s audited web-site traffic is routinely more than 12 million pages a month, seen by more than one million unique visitors.

Founded in 1916, the mission of the Optical Society of America (OSA) is to promote the generation, application and archiving of knowledge in optics and photonics and to disseminate this knowledge worldwide. The purposes of the Society are scientific, technical and educational.

Recently site-licensed by the Physics Library, Optics InfoBase is OSA’s online repository of both current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. The InfoBase search engine — displayed on the main InfoBase web page — allows users to find articles with simple search, advanced search, and lookup/browse features.

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